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The motor controllers for RC models nowadays have their own firmware and signal their settings and the end of their initialisation routine by letting the model's motor beep and play a short tune.
I already thought of hacking a firmware update ans letting my heli motor play something like this[^] at startup.
or perhaps I will wait until I get myself the model of a Huey.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I like your sigs - this in particular Quote: This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
.. "lipstick on a pig" 
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That's from a not so serious news item, something like 'If programming languages were cars'. I think that people who confuse JavaScript with a programming language also would buy my donkey as a race horse or take the golf cart to Le Mans.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: play something like this[^]
When I read "heli" and "play something" I didn't need the link anymore 
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Sure. This whole thread may become expensive. I have already be looking at this[^] all morning. In honor of my first employer after school i would of course like it with 'Luftwaffe' paint scheme.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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As usual, crap all over the lounge wins.
All of the usual suspects will make the usual messes in the morning.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I would have replied to your original post but I got bored before I got to the end...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I usually enjoy the thought of the day. The others? Meh.
We need a thread filter by original poster, but Chris et al have more important things on their hands, I'm sure.
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Guerrilla Coder wrote: We need a thread filter by original poster, but Chris et al have more important things on their hands, I'm sure.
A daily drivel forum would be a lot less work to setup.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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No wonder no one got it - "Gibberish" starts with a G, not a J!
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What part of incomprehensible are you having trouble with again?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Currently, 133 items needing moderation 
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This is an interesting subject for me.
I have been in IT for 33 years. I have NEVER understood why people do this. My servers at work get attacked over one million times a month. (Gov) We are CONSTANTLY besieged by telemarketer robocalls trying to scam us. NON-STOP scam, crime, attack, spam, then more spam, more attacks, and then junk faxes trying to sell laser-printer toner and phony airline deals.
Is there something wrong with most people? Don't they have parents to teach them morality? Were they not breast-fed? Really, I can't figure it out. What is the point of this? They aren't EVER going to get any money from me, EVER. So, why do they do this day after day, month after month, year after year?
At home I have 100% blocked ALL telemarketers with systems I developed myself. All network attacks are blocked by my firewalls. All spam is blocked successfully. But the question remains.
WHY?
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What I find amusing is that I get the same spiel for solar panel from a US company EVERY day, the amusing thing is I'm on the other side of the planet!
There should be a cost for sending an email somehow, you wouldn't miss the 25c a day to send your 25 emails but those miserable bastards would soon disappear.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: There should be a cost for sending an email somehow
I agree 
That's always the problem when you give something away for free - it's assumed to have no value, and as such can be "freely" abused.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: There should be a cost for sending an email somehow
And that would help against people posting spam on forums and newsgroups how exactly? And what would that do to the likes of Amazon, who send out thousands upon thousands of legitimate emails every day (remembering that Amazon has still to make a profit as it is)? I'll take any number of instantly filtered and never read pieces of junk over a charge per email any day!
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Against spam posters - no change but as for the likes of Amazon, factoring in 1c per email to their business plan would be trivial. It would also encourage them to be more discriminating in their target audience.
Also while Amazon may consider their output to be legitimate, I consider it to be spam, they along with facebook and a number of others go straight to the junk folder!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The answer to the question, I believe, is that enough people are ignorant and gullible enough to fall for these scams to make it profitable. If that were untrue, the spam would stop. We need smarter users, not fewer scammers. Yeah, I know the odds of that happening in my lifetime... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Old post on the subject[^]
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Why?
Because a very very small percentage fall for it/buy the product whatever.
It is really just advertising by another route.
And it is cheap - it costs pretty much nothing to sent 1,000,000 emails
if 0.01% respond, that's 100 people
if 1% of them give you $100 you have just made $100 from an outlay of pretty much nothing.
It may be annoying, immoral etc. but it is better for most of society than if these people went out and mugged people
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